CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIANITY
Daniel Patte, General Editor
Editorial Board | Preparing Contextual , Conceptual-Theological and Historical , and Methodological Entries
Overall List of Entries | Dictionary in Construction (Entries [almost] in final form) | Style sheet
CDC BIBLIOGRAPHY | List of CONTRIBUTORS


What are Contextual Entries?  They deal with those contemporary manifestations of Christianity that are distinctive because they are marked by and reflect the interactions of Christianity with a particular social, economic, political, cultural and religious life-context in a given location. (See Statistics on 238 nations)

Contextual entries are gathered together in CONTEXTUAL CLUSTERS. Each indludes the following:
One REGIONAL CONTEXTUAL ENTRY (see Template # 1 N or R) provides a concise and up-to-date overview of the shape and contour of Christianity in this broad region of the world. Several NATIONAL CONTEXTUAL ENTRIES (see Template # 1 N or R) that similarly provide overviews of Christianity in each of the nations in this region, as well as statistics (see Statistics on 238 nations) and siginificant aspects of the history of Christianity in each nation. Any Number of SUB-ENTRIES about distinictive features of Christianity in this context concerning:
1) THEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (see Template # 3 T Concept in Context); see also Template # 2 T Concept)

 

2) CHRISTIAN MOVEMENTS (see Template # 4 MOV)

3) CHRISTIAN PRACTICES (see Template # 5 CP)

4) SCRIPTURE & other authoritative texts and their uses (see Template # 6 SCRIP)

5) FIGURES (see Template # 7 FIG)

6) EVENTS (see Template # 8 EVENT)

7) INTERACTIONS OF OTHER TRADITIONS WITH CHRISTIANITY (see Template # 9 INTER)